Summer is here!

I can feel the heat. Yeah, summer has arrived indeed.
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The cool and breezy mornings that we've been waking up to in the past couple of weeks have become warm and foggy. The foggy mornings are gone and now the weather is hot and sticky. Ugh. Ok lang sana if it's warm and windy. But no, it's hot, sticky and sweaty.

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I don't like this kind of weather because now it takes longer for my laundry to dry. So now I'm seriously considering using the dryer at the laundry place downstairs, but for Thb100 per load? Maybe I should try it first.

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How are things there back home? Mainit na rin ba?

My First Laundry Disaster

Since we're posting all our firsts on this blog, I might as well include my first (and hopefully my last!) laundry disaster.

Yep, the thing that I feared the most has already happened. No, the washing machine did not explode (thank god!), but one of my shirts was almost torn into shreds.

Nabutas sya!

Here's a closer look at the damage.

So now I mourn the demise of my new (wore it only once!) Zara shirt. I shouldn't feel too bad since I got it on sale -- but that's thing! This shirt is a super rare find! I got it for only 390baht from the original price of 990baht! Good thing I bought two (this one's grey, the other one's cream). This is one instance where it really pays to buy duplicates! When I see something that I really like, I buy in different colors but only if it's cheap.

But the weird thing is, the other shirts that I washed along with it were not damaged at all. So I'm not really sure if it's the washing machine's fault or if the shirt was damaged already before I even washed it. Hmmm...

Laundry Update

I'm proud to say that I'm becoming more confident with doing the laundry. Guess that's what happens when you do it everyday. You might be wondering why I have to do it that often. You'll be surprised at how much laundry we accumulate in a day! Or maybe we just need a bigger hamper?

Ofcourse, I still have some nail biting moments like the time I washed the Lacoste shirts together with our jeans. When I mentioned it to my husband that night, he kinda panicked so I told him right away that ofcourse I didn't put them together! I was just kidding! Hey, all I know is you're supposed to separate the whites from the coloreds. So it's safe to put colored shirts and jeans together, right? Thankfully, nothing bad happened to the shirts. I actually have a back-up plan in case something bad does happen -- I'll just run off to the nearest Lacoste shop and get a replacement! Hehe!

It's not just my laundry skills that improved in the past week -- our sampayan is new and improved as well!

Here's the old sampayan....

...and the new improved more sosyal sampayan!

Hindi na sya masyadong nakakahiya pag nakita ng mga kapitbahay namin. Hehe!

The Laundry Challenge

I have a confession to make...I don't know how to do the laundry. I have excellent cooking skills, mediocre cleaning skills (thanks to the OC in me), but I suck when it comes to doing the laundry. When we were younger and we didn't have a maid, my mom put me in charge of the kitchen and the cleaning while my sister Angel who has zero cooking skills (this doctor-to-be can't fry an egg to save her life!), was in charge of doing the laundry. She's a laundry whiz!

But that doesn't make me a fake domestic goddess! It's not my fault they do not have shows on the Lifestyle Network about doing the laundry. Sure they have all sorts of cooking shows or programs that teach you how to decorate all sorts of stuff, but nothing on laundry.

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I tried to postpone doing the laundry for as long as I could, even making excuses to my husband like I can't do the laundry yet because we don't have sampayan, no hangers, etc. We needed to go to the mall first to buy the kind that you assemble. But our clothes are starting to pile up and the hamper's getting full. So Richard made a make-shift sampayan for me. Now there's no excuse for not doing the laundry.

So the day finally arrived when I came face to face with the washing machine. It would have been a lot easier if our washer was the tub type. But no, as luck would have it, they gave us the front-loading type. It didn't have any words on it like spin, dry or cycle. Instead, it had all these weird symbols. I looked it up on the internet, but I didn't find any match. I also tried to download a user's manual online, but the model number wouldn't register in whirpool! We even tried asking the housekeeping people to teach us how to use it but they don't speak english. Looks like I will just have to try the controls and hope that the machine doesn't explode!

This is the way we wash our clothes...

First, we load the clothes. Since this is a test run, we will use the pambahay so that in case I use the wrong controls, ok lang if the machine tears them into shreds...

Mommy, are you sure with what you're doing?

Next, you turn the controls and cross your fingers...

Yikes! I hope we got that right!

I passed the laundry challenge!! Yey! No tears, no holes, no shrinkage. Whew!

Pinoy talaga ang nakatira dito kasi may sampayan. Haha!